Bottle-stopper extractor.



6.1. KGRNDORFER.

vBOTTLE STOPPER EXTRACTOR.

APPLlcATloN FILED 05916, 1913.

1202,0'73. Patented 001;.' 24, 1916.

UETTED sTATEs PATENT oEEioE.

GASPAR J. KORNDORFER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR T0 STATEN ISLAND MANU- FACTURING CORPORATION, A CORPORATION 0F NEW YORK.

BOTTLE-STOPPER EXTRACTOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 24, 1916.

Application filed December 16, 1913. Serial No. 806,969.

To all whom t may concern: n

Be it known that I, GASPAR J. KoRN- Dorman, citizen of the United States, residing tractors and more particularly to those of the thin disk variety, having especial vadaptability to covers for milk bottles and other vessels containing food stu's.

An objectof my invention is to provide for Stoppers of the class described a combined extractor and holder which may be employed for removing and replacing the.

stopper as often as maybe required, which device has as few parts and features as 1s consistent with the production of a complete and efficient article of its kind.

A further object of my invention is to provide a sanitary device which makes 1t especially applicable to covers of vessels containing liquids and other food stuffs, as pointed out, and to this end I have. constructed the preferred form of my device in such manner that no two parts of the continuous strip of wire from which it is .formed are in physical contact, thus avoiding the v making of crevices or other openings to receive decaying cretions.

In the accompanying drawings illustrative of a preferred form of my invention Figures l and 2 are front and side elevations respectively of the device in normal engagement with a paper cap in the neck of a milk bottle; and Fig. 3 is a plan view of the device, the relative position of the cap thereto indicated by a circle in broken line.

In the drawings, l represents a ring-like finger-piece the respective sides of which at the bottom of the ring are extended in oppoor otherwise unsanitary acsite directions at right angles thereto, to

form, at one side, the depending prong 2 having a point 4 at its outer extremity; and at the other side, to form a horizontally disposed U-shaped extension 5, having its two sides 6 and 7 within the same plane, the shorter side 7 thereof terminating at 8 and therefore, not reaching back to the finger piece l, as shown in Fig. 3. The underlying pointed member 2 is vturned under at the curved portion and ythen slightly inclines upwardly to forma rounded portion 3 immediately beneath the plane of the member 5 and at a point about midway of the length thereof, said rounded portion constituting what may be termed a presser-part which by virtue of its spring action is adapted ,to`

clamp any thin disk or other material against the loop melnber 5.

The member 5, lying within the plane immediately above the curved part 3 of the hook member 2, is so disposed with reference to the underlying prong 2 that its sides 6 and 7 are substantially parallel with said prong 2 which when pressed in the direction of said looped member would, were suficient pressure exerted thereon, be caused to pass between the said members thereof.

The point 4 is formed at the extremity of the portion of the member 2 where it vdescends from the presser-part 3, and the prongr 2, at the end, is of such declivity that the sharp point thereof will enter the surface of whatever substance the device is pressed against, when held in a horizontal or slightly tipped position relatively to the medium thus acted upon.

The ring-like handle 1 is disposed in the vertical plane at right angles to the correspondingly vertical plane of the hook member 2, for the reason that in holding the handle between the thumb and finger, or the thumb and first two fingers, the point is thereby held in a convenient position to be forced through the texture of the material to which it is applied, with such force as is necessary to cause the pin to enter. This detail in the construction of my invention has been found to be especially advantageous, inasmuch as the paper used as covers or Stoppers of the bottles, for example, in which m-ilk is sold to the public are often` made of extremely tough stock offering to the entering point appreciable resistance, which is most easily overcome by using the handle piece thus made cross-*wise to the direction in which the pointv is forced Vto penetrate the disk. The ring-like construction of the transversely arranged handle piece is further seen to constitute an advantageous arrangement, ybecause of the facility with which the nger part can be slipped upon one of the ngers in the manner an ordinary ring is worn, thereby giving free use of the hand While removing the contents from the bottle or jar, and also avoiding the necessity of placing the `cap or stopper upon a shelf or table to attract to itself undesirable foreign matter or to soil the surface upon which it may be laid. My invention for these and other reasons has proved a simple, inexpensive and highly convenient article with indispensable sanitary provision for every day use in practically allhouseholds. It is not claimed that this improvement is-entitled to such broad protection as to cover all stopper eXtractors having the prong and clamp features, for I am aware of other devices having been made' which seek to accomplish, and in a general wayfsucceed in producing,

y a device for removing disks from bottles, in

the same general way as that act is accomplished by my device. I claim however, to have brought this class of useful articles toa highly improvedform of construction,

and accordingly desire protection for the improvements as disclosed herein.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is:

-1. `A stopper remover'and replacer having an annular handle terminating'oppositely in a horizontally looped member and an 'underlying piercing member, said members ,forming spring yielding gripping means, i

substantially as described.

2. A stopper remover and replacer having clamping means comprising an underlying piercing member and an overlying horizontally disposed U-shaped opposing member, said members suitably arranged upon a finger piece formed continuously from a single piece of wire having all parts non-contiguous.

3. A stopper remover and replacer formed of a single piece of wire looped to form a ring-like finger piece, one side thereof eX- tended as a horizontallyy disposed looped member of a clamping device, the other side of said ring extended as a piercing member underlying said looped member and having a presser part adapted to be drawn by in- 'f herent spring action in the direction of saidv looped member, said underlying member and presser part being suitably disposed so as to move vertically and adapted to grip thin substances against the looped member. In testimony whereof, I havefhereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. GASPAR J. KORNDORFER. fitnesses ANNA W. DILLMAN, IDA M. OWEN.

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